stack unit card jumble

[rob-a-dogg]

ok im a bit pedantic, i like my unit cards in my stacks to all be in order, e.g. general, cavalry, infantry, artillery and each class of unit will be organised into specific types e.g. cavalry might be curiassers, lancers, hussars. it makes it easy to mass select a specific unit type and see how each unit type or class is faring in the battle.

but in empire it seems to move them about depending on their unit titles (33rd Regiment of Foot etc) so they all jumble themselves up so that i have 1 infanty, 1 cavalry, 1 infantry, 1 artillery, 1 cavalry etc and its driving me nuts. its in past total war games i could just remove units from the stack and put them back in, into the order i want but they re-arange themselves intot this retarded jumble in empire. is there any way to control where they go? i have tried manually changing the titles and even removing the titles entirely but with no success.

[Blofeld2k]

There is, but don't remember how to. It has to do with moving one unit out than in again, shuffling them back and forth until you have the order you like.

And you're not alone, I also would like to have them in order, not only to make it a little simpler before you start a battle to line your forces up, because they still haven't figured out how to save your setups. How boring it is to place the units over and over and over again in the same way...

Oh, and how difficult would it be to implement a sort functionality to the unit roster? So that we don't have to use the illogical shuffling described above? But noo.

[rob-a-dogg]

the moving them in and out is what i used to do int he older TW games. it doesnt work this time around for me

[♔ brucedickenson♔]

Is there any logic to the way it works? Its a shame we cant just click and drag...................

[rob-a-dogg]

as far as i can tell it has something to do with the unit titles but im not 100% sure. its driving me up the wall. as i add new units to replaces lost ones the order gets mroe and more jumbled. its chaos.

[MadBurgerMaker]

IIRC, you can organize it (to general -> cav -> arty -> infantry) by moving them out one at a time so that they all (or as many as it takes to get them ordered) become leader units, then moving them back into the stack. If you train some new troops using your general, the leader of that new group can throw it all out of order if some of your cav or arty units haven't been leader units themselves, if you know what I mean.

If you train the whole stack in a city, they come in the proper order. Dragoons will be at the end of the stack, I believe (I guess unless they were the only leader units aside from your general...haven't tested that).

This is an incredibly irritating bug.